Tracy Shaw (born 28 July 1973 in Belper, Derbyshire) is an British actress.

She is best known for her role as hairdresser Maxine Peacock (formerly Maxine Heavey) in British soap opera Coronation Street during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Shaw was born into the hotel and pub trade, at the time when her parents ran the Talbot Hotel in Belper, Derbyshire. She attended St. Benedict's School in Derbyshire, and went to the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester in 1990, where she got a degree in theatre studies.

Her best known work at present is hairdresser Maxine Peacock in the long-running, popular British soap opera Coronation Read more...

In May 1996 she was presented with the Rear of the Year, title. She had a series of high-profile romances, including engagement to Darren Day, which led to an array of media stories of cocaine addiction which were ultimately proven to be false.

She married Robert Ashworth in June 2001, but a series of early problems occurred including a row on a return flight from the Caribbean having been Read more...